Bug 708

Summary:	RFE: recognize koi8-r fonts when UTF-8 locale is used.
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <x-bugs>
Component:	* Other	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	alan.coopersmith, mharris, mharris, roland.mainz
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
URL:	http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/en_US.UTF-8?root=xorg
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Aleksey Nogin 2004-06-01 21:00:01 UTC

As I understand, the current NLS configuration forces X applications to use only
ISO10646-1 fonts for displaying Cyrillic letters under ru_RU.UTF-8.
Unfortunatelly, there are not that many ISO10646-1 fonts that include Cyrillics
and it would be nice if X new to pick up koi8-r fonts as well.

After all, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE
(http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/en_US.UTF-8?root=xorg)
does say "We leave the legacy encodings in for the moment, because we don't have
that many ISO10646 fonts yet.", except unfortunatelly the KOI8-R encoding is not
among the legacy ones it knows about.

P.S. Related:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68725
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186

Comment 1 Roland Mainz 2004-06-03 05:31:17 UTC

I know that Solaris supports the koi-r and ansi-1251 encodings for the
ru_RU.UTF-8 locale... but a quick grep over the Xorg tree shows no trace of such
support... I fear this may be really an unique Solaris feature (well, you can
switch over to Solaris/x86 :)

Alan:
Am I correct with the observation that the *.UTF-8 locale in the Xorg tree does
not allow non-"iso10646-1"-fonts to be used in applications (e.g. you MUST use
ru_RU.KOI8-R to be able to use "koi-r"-encoded fonts) ?

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2004-06-03 05:57:06 UTC

Sorry - I have no idea.

Comment 3 Aleksey Nogin 2004-06-03 06:07:45 UTC

Please see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68725#c18 for a
proposed fix. I have not tried it myself, but the author believes that it works.

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2004-09-01 03:21:37 UTC

Has anyone reviewed the proposed patch for this?  If so, what are the objections
if any to including it in the tree?  If none, why isn't it in the tree?

Comment 5 Markus Kuhn 2004-09-22 05:08:04 UTC

Fixing Bug #1401, namely adding the needed Cyrillic glyphs to the relevant
*-ISO10646-1 BDFs, is probably the simplest solution to this request.

Comment 6 Pablo Saratxaga 2005-03-08 07:46:51 UTC

It's worst than that; in UTf-8 the cyrillic glyphs come from CJK fonts
cyrillic encoding fonts (not only koi8-r, also iso8859-5) should come
before CJK fonts.
Bug #2676 has a patch for default UTF-8 XLC_LOCALE font list
that solves it (and is more general, as it also handle Greek
and other font encodings for which there have traditionally
being standalone fonts while the iso10646-1 could lack
the needed glyphs)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2676 ***

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